...Your PC isn't clean. I wonder if there's a product that can clean it. /Seriously. WTH?

A CC of your resignation notice to your personal email.

I can see them trying to say "but he sent that email out *after* I fired him".

The obvious retort is "so you let a terminated employee access his computer and email account *after* you fired him?"

"But he could have forged the email..."

Hopefully by then, common sense would prevail.

I gave 2 weeks and 3.5 days notice.

By that last week, I just didn't give a fuck about the job anymore and almost had to have my supervisor (who was a great guy) call me to wake me up in the morning.

Only professional pride made me get through that final Friday afternoon without stripping naked and rubbing my taint in the COO's face.

Yeah, it's a nicety, but really, who is anyone trying to fool?

We're a 1,700 employee regional government organization (analogeous to county). Engineering (paired with Construction) is one of our largest divisions, probably about 600 employees, with 200 of them being Engineers.

As that aspect is pretty opaque, dealing with pipes and water and sewage treatment (even if the org itself is pretty under-the-radar), the engineers get pretty much what they want. Large Monitors, Top Spec computers every 18 months, latest versions of AutoCad and other CAD programs, dedicated IT resources to get and keep everything running.

The 10 person GIS team of the IT department is pretty much at their beck and call as well.

Similar situation. Though my better half is fairly technically inclined, I still wanted to make it easier on her.

In my setup, everything is on the PS3. She can work Netflix easily enough, as well as NHL Gamecenter for our local Vancouver Canucks. That uses a VPN gateway to get around Geo-IP blackouts. I've also set up an HDHomeRun and did some programming voodoo to allow her to watch OTA (local news, some entertainment) through the video services on the PS3.

Finally, there's auto-downloading torrents of certain shows that are also accessed through video services on the PS3. (All backed by PS3 Media Server)

I was paying $90 per month (ever increasing) for cable for a few shows. Netflix is $8, the VPN is $3.25 and Gamecenter works out to about $20 per month during the Hockey season.

I'm never going to back to cable.

He probably meant GameCenter. CenterIce is the NHL's cable package offering out of market games.

Regardless, GameCenter didn't black out the 4 Canucks playoff games (all I cared about) in Germany, which is where it looked like my network was.

The absurdity of having to VPN into Germany to watch a hockey game being played at an arena 15 minutes from where I live was not lost on me.

NHL, MLB and NFL have live internet streams, and the one I use(d), NHL for my local Vancouver Canucks, has geo-IP lockouts to "protect" the broadcasters.

A VPN tunnel down into Seattle solved that issue pretty quickly, despite their scary warning.

On a rainy weekend, with a bunch of Netflix, Gamecenter and music streaming and some other downloads, we can easily hit 50 GB in a day.

...on another forum:

Copy and paste the entire job description into a 1 pixel by 1 pixel box on your resume. Invisible to the naked eye, but parsers easily pick it up.

Just make sure to watch the sites that parse and reformat for you (Monster, eg) when uploading.

Furthermore - I'd bet the farm that the only people that are being pestered about their data usage are the people using Netflix and competing services.

Which is absolute shit, at least now. Shaw is a member of the Netflix SuperHD program, which means they have (or otherwise directly hook into) a Netflix appliance on their network, so they don't pay any transit fees for netflix data now. If they're complaining about Netflix users "taking all the bandwidth" then it's because they've oversold their network.